Hugh Walpole

Rogue Herries

Historical novel of a man's complex legacy spanning generations in Cumberland

About the author

Hugh Walpole
Hugh Walpole

Walpole was one of the most popular British novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, whose Herries Chronicle offered a panoramic saga of a Cumberland family through three centuries. His supernatural tales are among his most durable work.

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